Volume 8, Number 40, October 13, 1981
Departments
Interviews
Nobuhiko Ushiba, Japanese cochairman of the Shimoda conference, and David MacEachron, president of the Japan Society.
Middle East Report
by Robert Dreyfuss
Haig caught sabotaging AWACS.
Science & Technology
by Marsha Freeman
U.S. budget axe targets NASA, fusion.
Congressional Closeup
by Barbara Dreyfuss and Susan Kokinda
Energy Insider
by William Engdahl
We’d better start breeding.
Economics
The IMF’s Annual Meeting Issues a Death Sentence
by David Goldman and Laurent Murawiec
The U.S. Administration was drawn into spearheading the Fund’s plan for a credit clampdown on Third World debtors, which is in no one’s interest.
Documentation: Excerpts from speeches by, and interviews with, U.S. Treasury Secretary Regan, IMF Director de Larosière, President Reagan, French Finance Minister Delors, a Lazard Frères partner, Chase Manhattan’s Willard Butcher, and the chairman of the British Commonwealth.
World Trade
by Mark Sonnenblick
International Credit
by Renée Sigerson
Stock-market slide: a warning?
Currency Rates
Business Briefs
Special Report
A Return to Gold: World Deflation or Expanded Credit?
by David Goldman
The LaRouche Gold Proposal: Averting Economic Depression
From Robert Peel to J.P. Morgan: What Is a British-Style Gold Standard?
by Richard Freeman
The Zijlstra-Mundell Plan for BIS Credit Restriction
by Kathy Burdman
The Lehrman-Laffer Neo-Monetarist Plan
Wanniski: ‘A Specie Resumption Act’
by Kathy Burdman
Federal Reserve’s Disciplinary Plan
International
Khomeini’s ‘Final Solution’ Proceeds Throughout Iran
by Robert Dreyfuss
Mexico Chooses Its Next President
by Timothy Rush
Documentation: Statements by the Wall Street Journal and candidate De la Madrid.
Germans, Soviets, Japan Pursue Growth
by Rachel Douglas
German Labor Sees Environmentalists As New Nazi Menace
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
The Shimoda Conference: What Japan’s Leaders Say About Haig and Volcker
by Richard Katz
Documentation: A summary of the top-level proceedings.
Mitterrand’s Policy: An Inflationary Crunch
by Dana Sloan
International Intelligence
National
Covert Administration Support for Global 2000
by Barbara Dreyfuss
A report on the invitation-only conference sponsored by Sen. Charles Mathias and accorded a Reagan imprimatur by the attendance of eight senior Administration officials.
Volcker Issue Forced to a Vote in Senate
by Susan Kokinda
The Melcher resolution, debated and defeated.
Documentation: Statements on Federal Reserve policy from leading senators-including Banking Committee Chairman Jake Garn’s defense of the “independence” of the Fed-and the Teamsters’ letter of support for the Melcher amendment.
Rep. Gephardt Applauds the Federal Reserve
by Barbara Dreyfuss
An EIR interview with the congressman who helped keep the anti-Volcker Melcher resolution off the House floor.
Senator Williams Sues Abscammers
by Mary Jane Freeman
Extracts from the legal brief containing his conspiracy charges against the Justice Department and FBI.
National News
